From the "Through Our Eyes: Midtown and Beyond" and "Alphabet of Art" exhibits held at the popular Studio@620

to the St. Petersburg Science Festival and the SPIFFS International Folk Fair held in downtown St. Petersburg, Eckerd students, faculty and programs are getting noticed. Our people are quoted and featured in news articles - commenting on the news, making the news and writing the news. (Scroll down to theEckerd in the News section)

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Gov. Rick Scott: Prevent another tragedy along Pinellas Bayway

On November 7, 2012, a beloved member of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, Robert "Bob" Earl Shepherd, 85, died after exiting campus while turning left, heading westbound on the Pinellas Bayway leading to the Gulf beaches. Bob, who actively pursued public officials and others to advocate for a traffic signal at the entrance to campus, unknowingly foretold his death in 2001 when he said, "It's a tragedy waiting to happen."

Following a successful visit to the Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization's monthly meeting, where the MPO took action to request Florida Department of Transportation reevaluate the installation of a traffic signal at the College's entrance, President Donald Eastman and other members of the Eckerd community will be attending the St. Petersburg City Council's meeting on Monday, November 19, at 3:00 p.m. at City Hall in downtown St. Petersburg (175 5th St. N.). These appearances are part of the College's efforts to re-initiate its conversations with city, county and state representatives to pursue the installation of a traffic signal. All are encouraged to attend these public meetings.

Click on the link to share it with your colleagues, families and friends to help reach our goal of 2,500 signatures. It will then be delivered to Rick Scott, The Governor of Florida. Thank you for your support!

Faculty Focus: Davina Lopez, Allan Meyers

Davina C. Lopez, Associate Professor of Religious Studies,has been elected to the Society for Theory in Religion and Theology, and has also been appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of Religion and Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourses, the flagship peer-reviewed journal for the appraisal of methodology in the study of religion within the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Allan Meyers, Professor of Anthropology, has had a new book published, Outside the Hacienda Walls: The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatan. It is part of the University of Arizona Press series on the Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America. Fellow author Jennifer Mathews describes his books as "... the future of archaeology - this kind of interdisciplinary approach that combines archival research, ethnographic interviews, and on-the-ground archaeology."

On display through December 7 in Cobb and Elliott Galleries, "The Invisible Elephant" exhibition comes to us from the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, where it first opened in July of this year. Kirk Ke Wang is Professor of Visual Arts at Eckerd College, and Theo Wujcik is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. This is their second major collaboration. The show's concept was based on an ancient parable that colorfully illustrates how we each can see the same thing differently. The resulting exhibition is a visual feast of western/US and Asian/Chinese cultures in dialogue.

Let Eckerd Wear the Apron on Thanksgiving Day!

Let your Eckerd family prepare this year's Thanksgiving Feast. Bring your family and friends to Fox Hall on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22 at 4 p.m. Enjoy turkey with all the trimmings, football game viewing in the Pub, and holiday craft activities for all ages. Cost: meal cards will admit students who are on the meal plan; other students, faculty, staff and guests will be $7.50/person. Buy tickets in the Bon Appetit Dining Services Office (864-8411, Café Bon Appetit building).

All Eckerd College students, alumni, trustees, faculty, staff, and ASPEC and OLLI members are invited to send in their short stories, one-act plays, nonfiction (15 pages max.), poems and art before November 23 for consideration for publication in Eckerd Review 2013. Visit the website and follow the submission guidelines to electronically submit your work anonymously.

Events@EckerdAll events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.

Dr. Julie Huber '98, who double majored in marine science and biology and minored in chemistry at Eckerd, is an assistant professor (MBL) in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. A scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, her lab studies the microbial life found in the unique, and largely unstudied, environment of the deep seafloor. Huber has received a number of awards for her research including a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science in 2007.

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